Apology from Yoshi

Early access was a bonus for buying early. Same price. Compensation =$0

"some people took time off from work"
poor.life.choices

"They knew exactly how many people got early access"
This is a moving number. People are still buying SB at this moment and getting early access automatically... probably more since early access started than in the months prior.

Still, the rage is real. Expectations are not being met due to predictable design flaws. Remember this before the next Expac and remind SE at every QA opportunity leading up to it.

I think I will go take my anger out by killing some beasts on my alt, Geralt. Or seek comfort in the arms of Yennefer. She's way prettier than Raubahn anyway.

I wish they could replace Raubahn with that IT guy from Jurassic Park, waggling his finger, denying access.

And now PotD is kicking me out of the game. One less thing to be able to do.

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Originally Posted by Slevin_Impudicus

"They knew exactly how many people got early access"
This is a moving number. People are still buying SB at this moment and getting early access automatically... probably more since early access started than in the months prior.

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Accurate estimates would still have been possible. It may be a moving number, but you can often estimate and be rather accurate by seeing how the numbers rose over time.

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Originally Posted by GetFoesReqd

People are acting like they're not trying to fix it. In the apology he states they're working on a fix. Yeah, its taking a long time, and its super frustrating, but its not like they're just effing us off. . . . They will definitely take care of us, don't worry. ^_^

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Its now been more than twelve hours since you posted this. There has been no further word. I have seen not one iota of evidence that they are doing jack shit about the situation.

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Originally Posted by HulkSmash-

Its now been more than twelve hours since you posted this. There has been no further word. I have seen not one iota of evidence that they are doing jack shit about the situation.

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Other than letting it play out. Face it, we're all playing a glorified Demo at this point.

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Originally Posted by Ayer2015

And now PotD is kicking me out of the game. One less thing to be able to do.

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I keep having that problem too, then it is a bear to get back on.

this is just plain stupid we have a massive budget for sb so lets blow it on advertising and not have the server to handle the returning players

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Originally Posted by BroodingFicus

ARR however had a similar issue with the MSQ and that is why in HW it was a long time before there was a solo instance, which gave the population time to disperse. That, more than anything, is what I find annoying. It was an issue that was addressed very well in HW and then somehow the whole design team had their memories of it wiped and here we are again.

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There's two ways I could see this fiasco not happening:
1) Within the design, ensure that people don't get locked out a majority of the zones prior to encountering a solo instance.
2) When they moved the Data Center, take this opportunity to stress test the Instance Server.

But yeah, HW was annoying, but at least the people who got in could play. Right now, sure you can get in, but you're severely limited in what you can do.